SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production
Papers in the tracked journals on UN Sustainable Development Goal 12, Responsible consumption and production. OpenAlex assigns a paper to each UN Sustainable Development Goal that its classifier scores above 0.4 from the paper's text; a paper can belong to several goals or to none. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), SDG 12 (Responsible consumption and production) was addressed by 10,387 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (4,464), economics (2,852) and management (1,259).
- It is #10 of the 17 goals by papers from 2023 to 2025 (4,326).
- 1,659 of them were published in 2025, against 551 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (128), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (77) and University of Tehran (70).
- The journals publishing most of them were Computers & Industrial Engineering (484), Annals of Operations Research (331) and International Journal of Production Economics (281).
- The most-cited of them is “Circular Economy: The Concept and its Limitations” (Ecological Economics, 2017), with 3,955 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 220 | 276 | 294 | 299 | 412 | 524 | 574 | 579 | 691 | 595 |
| Economics | 229 | 208 | 218 | 208 | 240 | 315 | 286 | 360 | 405 | 383 |
| Management | 63 | 51 | 53 | 81 | 127 | 160 | 164 | 178 | 202 | 180 |
| Marketing | 13 | 15 | 30 | 46 | 43 | 45 | 54 | 70 | 72 | 75 |
| AI | 6 | 21 | 8 | 22 | 36 | 81 | 88 | 66 | 76 | 56 |
| Finance | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 35 | 95 | 147 | 129 |
| Information Systems | 8 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 24 | 15 | 20 | 45 | 28 | 19 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 8 | 12 | 8 | 24 | 11 | 17 | 9 | 24 | 26 | 28 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 13 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Statistics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 551 | 597 | 633 | 706 | 906 | 1,180 | 1,239 | 1,428 | 1,659 | 1,488 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 484 |
| 2 | Annals of Operations Research | 331 |
| 3 | International Journal of Production Economics | 281 |
| 4 | Ecological Economics | 241 |
| 5 | Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain | 223 |
| 6 | Energy Economics | 216 |
| 7 | Expert Systems with Applications | 206 |
| 8 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 201 |
| 9 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 184 |
| 10 | Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | 157 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 128 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 77 |
| 3 | University of Tehran | 70 |
| 4 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 57 |
| 5 | Capital University of Economics and Business | 51 |
| 6 | Xiamen University | 49 |
| 7 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 45 |
| 8 | Yonsei University | 45 |
| 9 | Southeast University | 44 |
| 10 | Istinye University | 43 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2,087 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 609 |
| 3 | United States | 577 |
| 4 | India | 495 |
| 5 | Italy | 414 |
| 6 | France | 383 |
| 7 | Germany | 289 |
| 8 | Australia | 272 |
| 9 | Spain | 235 |
| 10 | Iran | 230 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | circular economy | 569 |
| 2 | CO2 emissions | 473 |
| 3 | supply chain sustainability | 281 |
| 4 | China | 264 |
| 5 | environmental regulation | 264 |
| 6 | green innovation | 264 |
| 7 | multi-objective optimization | 222 |
| 8 | supply chain resilience | 213 |
| 9 | blockchain | 207 |
| 10 | carbon emission reduction | 202 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/12-responsible-consumption-and-production
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/12-responsible-consumption-and-production}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}